[Javascript] window confirmation

[peter at brunone.com (Peter Brunone)]

	I'm trying to keep an updated list of which browsers can be manipulated
this way:  if you feel like it, take a look at
http://aspalliance.com/peterbrunone/impossible.asp and let me know about
other browser versions that are not listed.

Cheers,

Peter

|>From: "Dan Costea" <costea.dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
|>
|> > Hai,
|> >
|> > when i try to close parent window (default IE)  i get window
|>confirmation.
|> > How to close window parent without get window confirmation ?
|> >
|> > ps : IE 6
|> >
|>
|>This question was disscussed before. So, here are the conclusions
|(works on
|>IE6 too):
|>
|>----- Original Message -----
|>From: "Dan Costea" <costea.dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
|>To: <javascript@xxxxxxxxxx>
|>Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 9:24 AM
|>Subject: Re: [Javascript] Silent window.close... or a better idea
|>
|>
|> > I had exactly the same problem few months ago :o)
|> > Because of the security reasons, you cannot close a window without
|> > confirmation, if you didn't open that window with your js. But if you
|>really
|> > have no choice, you must lie the IE, by telling it that you opened that
|> > window you want to close! Here is the code:
|> >
|> > function cheatCloseWin ()
|> > {
|> >  win = top;
|> >
|> >  // lying:
|> >  win.opener = top;
|> >
|> >  win.close ();
|> > }
|> >
|> > Dan.
|> >
|> > ----- Original Message -----
|> > From: "Peter Brunone" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
|> > To: <javascript@xxxxxxxxxx>
|> > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 1:10 AM
|> > Subject: [Javascript] Silent window.close... or a better idea
|> >
|> >
|> > >
|> > > I have an intranet application (IE 5.5 only) that needs to be in a
|> > > fixed-size window with no menu, status, etc.  I can use a simple
|> > > window.open, but unfortunately the user doesn't want an extra window
|> > around.
|> > > I thought that if a page is the first one in the history, you could
|> > > window.close() without a confirmation, but that doesn't seem
|to be the
|> > case.
|> > > Can someone suggest a way to either silently close the calling window
|> > > (which will be a new browser instance just for this app anyway) OR
|>alter
|> > the
|> > > existing window in the same way?  Since this is restricted to
|>high-level
|> > MS
|> > > browsers, there has to be a usable option.
|> > >
|> > > Cheers,
|> > >
|> > > Peter
|> > >
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